6/18

Jeni: Sorry this one is out of order. There was a mixup in emails and they got out of order there.


Wassup!

Hi family peeps!

 

HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO THE PAPAS OUT THERE! haha... I am crazy....

 

 

Anyways... Yes I am District Leader. Yeah they usually try to move people up to District and Zone Leaders rather quickly here because then President has more options on who will be his assistant. So yeah I know I can handle it, it is just wierd thinking I am in charge of a small group of missionaries. It is also so wierd being Senior Companion because instead of having the possibility to look to my companion when I don´t know something I have to depend on myself inorder to figure things out. It is all good though. First week went well, lets hope it stays that way. Like this week I had to do an interview for one of my district missionaries, and it went well, alot easier then I thought. Also had to report numbers every other day, and that was easier then I thought, too. We had our first Zone LEadership meeting yesterday and that was fairly easy as well. Also Thursday all the Zone and District Leaders of the mission meet up to have a meeting with President. Learned some cool things and now I know alittle bit more about what to do as a Leader.

 

So yeah good week though.

 

As for the guy we talked to and had that experience. we could not find him at all this week and he did not come to church so we are going to look for him tomorrow I think is when we set up the cita.

 

Had a couple of experiences that reaally helped me learn to listen to the spirit. One was with a family of 3 that we found last week. We arrive at there house later in the afternoon and as we enter the spirit enters immediatly. I knew they could feel it because as we walked in and sat down the father´s face changed to one of awe. As we bagan teaching the Restoration it came even stronger and the mom and daughter were near tears. My companion teaches the Joseph Smith story and first vision and even more stronger. I was about to put a date for baptizm, but the Spirit told me to wait. Odd, I know, but it was a strong feeling that I should wait until further down the road. So I invited them to come to church but the father tells us he feels the need to wait until he knows more about the Church. I attempted to resolve that, but he persisted, and so we left it as that. I reiterated the need for prayer and having a testimony of the Book of Mormon and so we are going to go back this week and see what happens. Helped me alot to realize that I need to pay attention to the SPirit more often as I am teaching, which I have been lacking in the last few weeks.

 

Dunking is sweet and we will be doing some more this week. I hope. Depends on what happens tomorrow.

 

Ok, as for what has happened this lovely week.

 

One of our investigators who is waiting to get married to be baptized told us this week that she is not getting married but is looking for a job and will move out of the same house as her boyfriend to get baptized. Super cool! Just postponed her date for a few weeks.

 

Went knocking on Friday and knocked on a door. The lady that opened to us said "Hey can you come back in about 10 minutes, I want to clean my garage before we talk. So we came back, she let us, we taught the book of mormon, she told us yes to out church invite. But she said she would have to talk to her husband in order to go. So she said she would call us the next day. Next day never got a phone call but we were with one of her neighbors and decided to go say hi. The husband opens and tells us yeah they will come for Sacrament. So they came with us, loved it, and want to come back next week for it all! So cool. And they are probably baptizms this next week. We will see though.

 

Other then those experiences we had a pretty cruddy week. No one would open up for us and those who did shrugged us off as nothing. The thing I am glad for though is someone was at church this week. When no one comes to church I feel as though we wasted the week. But we is good. :D

 

Well, I think that is it for this week. All is well here and I am getting batter at everything day by day. So exciting to think of how far I have come in the 9 months I have on the mission. Cant wait to see were I am towards the end of the mission.

 

Send His to everyone and hope to here from them soon.

 

Les amo y cuidense

District Leader Elder TSWWWP Winslett